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- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be a director.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.
- Best-Seller
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
- Playground
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twitter is the Devil's playground.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.
- Elvis
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't not put humor in a book.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.
- Failing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like movies about failing.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a strong fellow.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'
- Acting Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.
- Expensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies are an expensive business.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.
- Act
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what it is, the reason so many 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds are saying 'Drive' is their favorite movie is that 'Drive' is a 90-minute trip into what a lot of seventies filmmaking was. It encapsulates the best of a certain kind of style, and a style that a lot of people haven't seen before, with the music and the way it's edited.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
- Necessity
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cast unusual people in my movies.
- Big Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that... I've always done 'less is more.'
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.
- Lazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normally movies have the same people they use over and over for everything. It's called typecasting. They don't like to take chances. They'll go with the guy they had before.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even in my movies that I've written myself, the characters sometimes border on great anger or nutsiness or other kinds of behavior. I'm not just doing fart jokes for two hours.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how, where, and why the idea for 'Defending Your Life' began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don't come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, 'Why is it this way?'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea behind 'Defending Your Life': Imagine if you had to sit in a courtroom and watch your life. I don't care who you are - if you committed a crime and you had to have all of your emails searched and made public, who on this planet could survive that? Nobody.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
'2001' is a really interesting movie because it came out in 1968, and everybody thought that that was possible, and look how ridiculous that was. We don't have ships like that, and you know, nobody in 1968 was going, 'Oh, that'll never happen!' But of course it never happened. We're not even close to it.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
My audience has lots of people between 20 and 35, but there are always a few 60-year-olds, and it makes me happier than if everyone was 22.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.
- Acting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied acting at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh because I figured a good comedian certainly could act.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad played a character on the radio called 'Parkyakarkus.' A Greek-dialect comedian. He did Friars' roasts and wrote material and made people laugh that way. But he wrote his own shows with other writers.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad died right after performing at the Friars' roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I have that tape somewhere. There's still a lot of good jokes in there. I mean, that was 1958.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started on television. I had five years of network television before I ever got up on a stage. The first thing I ever did was in 1967. This guy Bill Keene had a little talk show at noon, and Gary Owens took over for a week. He knew about this dummy bit I used to do, this ventriloquist thing, and I was on 'Keene at Noon.'
- Liked
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never liked going in the ocean.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your last name is Christ, don't name your son Jesus.
- Christopher
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the acting. It's how I started, and I sort of feel that if I don't give it a little shot now, and I go back, then I'm pretty much done with it. I mean, at what age am I going to do it at? Although, when you see Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow doing it, I guess the answer is 80.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people on this planet that are trying to live their life, that aren't trying to destroy things, are in the 99.9-percent majority.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but even if there were, I don't think I would have gone to them. I used to do stuff in the bathroom, and then I'd drive down to NBC and do it on 'The Golddiggers' with Dean Martin.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard people say, 'There are no bad audiences,' but that's just not true. There are people who just shouldn't be together in a room, who produce a really bad audience.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wouldn't it be great if cars came equipped with screens like that thing they have in Times Square that spells out the news? You could punch out your own instant messages: 'Will the small red car with the ugly driver please stay a little further behind?'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what I've always wanted to do? I've always wanted to put a lung in a suitcase and send it through an airport security check. In effect, the guard would be looking at an X-ray of a lung.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was very sick around the time I was born. The doctors thought he wouldn't live. He did recover, but I don't remember him as very active. I do remember lots of schtick around the dinner table. Generally, he and my brothers and I were all laughing at the same thing my mother did not find funny, whatever that was.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did years of summer stock. I sort of only wanted to be an actor. And then at 19, I was funny, and I had some of these bits that I did for friends, and I immediately could get on television.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing about Los Angeles is it feels like it's not new. It feels like it's already been built, and it's deteriorating, except for the places they're trying to make nicer. But in general, you drive all through the city, and the city feels like it was new a long time ago.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a few giant companies that I love, and I love Amazon. Their customer service is impeccable: sometimes, just for the hell of it, I'll sleep on a mattress for three years and return it.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny: in the middle of making 'The Muse,' I was offered, at the time, the first 'Ice Age,' the part that Ray Romano took: I was offered the elephant. And I couldn't even stop to breathe, so I didn't do it. They've made, like, six of them. And in the animation business, for a voice actor, that's what you want. You want six, you know?
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative; I loved the writing. I loved the making of it. Because, I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Finding Nemo' has spawned so many sort of emotions over the years. I don't even know that you could really understand exactly what parents and kids are seeing in it, but they can see a lot of different stuff.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really fond of 'Real Life' because I think it anticipated a whole movement. And people forget, they talk about 'Spinal Tap,' but that wasn't... this was a mockumentary a long time before that. It was one of the early, early sort of mockumentaries.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know; I guess they'll never make another 'Nemo.' I see they're making another 'Monsters, Inc.' I had a wonderful idea for them. I swear to God, I think there could be a great sequel to 'Nemo' where the fish never will leave home. He just won't leave. 'Getting Rid of Nemo.' Right, 'You're 30 years old! Get out of here!'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I present a different side of a male character: a side that is not John Wayne-like, a side that is, in fact, destructible. To some people, that is refreshing, and to other people, especially if they don't know me, it may be disturbing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020